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RE: Kindergarten entry age, retention, full day
- Archived: Fri, 07 Jun 06:38
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 22:30:16 -0700 (PDT)
- Author: "Vander Laan, Margaret" <mvlsac@aol.com>
- Subject: RE: Kindergarten entry age, retention, full day
- Topic: Student Learning
A "Junior 1st" is another name for retention--it's adding another year to a child's tenure in school, pushing the graduaton age to 19, heading them for an increased risk of dropping out. Besides, it's expensive--$5500 a year times the number of kids in the class. Also, it's not a great idea to have children in a class without strong peer role models. Some might even consider it tracking.
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